“Share a Coke” Marketing Campaign in VietnamThe campaign: “Share a Coke” has been launched in Vietnam since June 2014 with the Vietnamese name: “Trao Coca-Cola, kết nối bạn bè” (means “Sharing Coca-Cola, connecting friends”). Like other “Share a Coke” campaigns in other countries, personalized Coke bottles and cans with most popular Vietnamese names such as Nam, Thảo, Quỳnh, Yến, Linh, Tùng, Tuấn, Đức, Hà and etc have been introduced to the market. Besides popular first names, Coca-Cola also promotes Coke products by printing eight pronouns addressing intimate family members such as Bố yêu (Daddy), Mẹ yêu (Mommy), etc. On the opening day of the campaign, 130,000 Coke bottles were given to customers by 1,000 promoters in 200 points of purchase in Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi. The “Share a Coke” campaign can be said to reap huge success in Vietnam, even though a few argues that the bottles and cans with the personal name will eventually be thrown away into the dustbin. Furthermore, allegationof the Coca-Cola company tax evasion in Vietnam and claims of the company taken advantage of its customers to market the product do not have significant impact on the campaign.After the campaign being starts, a large number of Vietnamese customers, especially the youth group, look for the Cokes bottles and cans their name, their family members’ and their friends’ names. In addition, the campaign attracts more attention when a number of Vietnamese celebrities share personalized Cokes with their own name or even someone else name. Those kinds of images of Vietnamese celebrities have gotten thousand “Likes” in Facebook. Conversation about the personalized Coke continues to spread out on the Internet. Some people aske ways to acquire their own personalized Coke when they cannot find their names from cokes bottles and cans sold in the market. This problem of the limited number of names available in the physical Coke was solved by the availability of personalization of coke cans online.The virtual personalized Cokes are highly favoured because users can freely choose the text for their name, nickname, anything they want to say and the style at totally no cost. With the aid of many free simple software programs, many personalized virtual Coke have been created and then shared on social network. Irrefutable, virtual personalized cokes, in combination with social network and digital technology, play a decisive role in contributing to the success of the “Share a Coke” campaign in Vietnam
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